
AIRCRAFT assembly workers walked out on strike on Friday at Boeing factories near Seattle after union members voted overwhelmingly to go on strike.
The workers rejected a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25 per cent over four years.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) voted by 94.6 per cent to reject the proposed contract and 96 per cent to approve a strike.

Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE

ROGER McKENZIE looks at the gradual demise of US’s nefarious influence around the world and the complexity of impending freedom